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Entertain your friends and family with sushi that looks as fantastic as it tastes!

As the world's appetite for Japanese sushi continues to skyrocket, the Sushi Art Cookbook introduces readers to the art of creating sushi that looks as fantastic as it tastes! Author Ken Kawasumi—principal lecturer at the Japanese Sushi Institute—is the pioneering chef behind Kazari Maki Sushi. The designs revealed by slicing the sushi logs into delicious morsels can be understated or refined, expressive or playful—whatever suits the occasion!

A sushi cookbook like no other, this guide to decorative Kazari Maki Sushi includes:

How to prepare your ingredients, including delicious sushi rice

How to assemble, roll, press and cut Sushi correctly

How to arrange ingredients for amazing cross-section imagery

Anyone can create these simple-to-sophisticated sushi recipes and designs:

Chrysanthemum

Bunny

Clown

Smiley-Face

Panda

Cherry Blossom

Guitar

Penguin

Bonsai Tree

Samurai

and much more!

Ken Kawasumi has poineered the craft of decorative sushi for decades, honing his craft at a young age, training in various top sushi restaurants and developing his own maki techniques. He has won numerous national sushi competitions and served as instructor for "Sushi Kawasumi" in Kanagawa and Yokohama for several years before becoming principal lecturer at the Japanese Sushi Institute (Tokyo, Tsukiji). He is the founder of the decorative "Kazari Maki Sushi" movement in Japan.